Nkateko Masinga is an award-winning South African writer, scholar and graduate of the University of Iowa’s 2021 International Writing Program (IWP). She was a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow and a 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency. In 2019, she co-won the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award and was shortlisted for the AWDT African Writers Award. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Evaristo Prize for African Poetry. Her latest book, Daughter Wound, was published by UK publisher Hazel Press in April 2024 and was Book of the Week at the London Review Bookshop in its week of release.
